i have a personal website with a blog (i don't use a blogging tool, just html .. i don't want to use a tool)...

i want the "news" page (which is the blog) to use RSS to post the first few lines of the "news" on the main index page.

i also want to use RSS to post the 5 most recently updated topics from my phpbb installation ... to display those on my main default page.

i know nothing about RSS yet, can anyone point me to a tool or tutorial that may help me use this? I've found several tools on google that help if you have a blogger or livejournal ... but nothing for a full-blown personal website

I think you have a misunderstanding of what RSS is. RSS allows people to "subscribe" to a website and have content delivered to them via an RSS reader. It has nothing (directly) to do with showing variable content on your site. Although you can use RSS feeds to display variable content from other sites on your own site.

What you need is to utilize a server side scripting language (PHP, ASP, etc.). Displaying the 5 most current topis in the phpbb forum is easy enough. But, since your blogs are not created programatically with the information stored in a database you could run into problems trying to show the first few lines of the most recent blog.

You can do it by having the script read the HTML file and pull out the content. But, you have to put rules in for the script to know where the actual content you want starts in the HTML file. If you go this route you have to be very careful not to change the format of the HTML file such that the logic to pull the content will be broken.

Michael J

I have my home page, that contains iFrames. Those iFrames contain links to some third party web pages. Our home page gets updated regularly as the third party changes their contains.

Now, as per the last response, it is possible to read the content of the a HTML page.

Is it possible to read a .asp page's content, while most of the portion is created on the runtime. If yes, then please help me....

- Subhadeep Indu
(subhadeep.indusg@gmail.com)

System Executive...

"Is it possible to read a .asp page's content"

You can read the rendered page's content using "screen scraping". You would need to use some sort of scripting language and find the methods to implement it.

Michael J